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• New tunnel starts digging under south London

  20-05-2021 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A tube train sized tunnel has started being dug under south London running between Wimbledon and Crayford.
  It’s not for trains though, as it’s part of the London Power Tunnels project to upgrade the electricity supply across London, and this new tunnel will be around  20 miles long when completed.
  (c) National Grid, London Power Tunnels
  This new tunnel follows on from the original London Power Tunnels project, north of the Thames and will replace a maze of cables running under L
  
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• Rubens masterpieces reunited for the first time in 200 years

  20-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the first time in 200 years, two great master paintings will be reunited and go on display in London.
  The two paintings by Rubens, A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning and The Rainbow Landscape have long been considered companion pieces but haven’t been seen next to each other for some 200 years.
  They will come back together this summer at the Wallace Collection following the first-ever loan of the recently restored A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning by the National Gallery.
  
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• Ericsson and Volvo claim first cross-border 5G network vehicular handover

  20-05-2021 15:08
  
  Connected cars aren’t much good if they stop being connected as soon as you cross a border, so Ericsson and Volvo are on the case.
  The claim to the first cross-border 5G network vehicular handover needs to be qualified by the fact that the car in question doesn’t seem to have actually crossed any national borders. The whole thing was done at the AstaZero test track in Sweden (of course), which is roughly equidistant between the Danish and Norwegian borders, so this should be viewed a
  
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• Virgin/O2 UK merger to close this month

  20-05-2021 14:44
  
  The merger of UK mobile operator O2 with cableco Virgin Media is set to close in a matter of days, having cleared its final regulatory hurdle: the approval of the competition watchdog.
  It was really a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would green light the proposed tie-up. The watchdog provisionally cleared the merger just over a month ago, a gave interested parties several weeks to submit comments. Clearly nothing came up to ser
  
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• GSMA insists it’s still worth coming to MWC 2021

  20-05-2021 13:36
  
  Mobile operator trade body the GSMA, which runs Mobile World Congress, held a press conference that came over like a plea for people to attend this year’s event.
  When the conference was announced, with just a day’s notice, the natural suspicion was that they were going to call the whole thing off. There haven’t been any more high-profile cancellations recently, but maybe all the lingering hassle and uncertainty around the Covid pandemic just meant it was proving impossible to h
  
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• Deutsche Telekom wants investors to sit back and relax

  20-05-2021 13:21
  
  CEO Tim Höttges on Thursday kicked off the sort of capital markets day aimed more at making Deutsche Telekom investors feel more like they were at a spa than a high-level strategy briefing.
  It wasn’t just his branded bomber jacket paired with matching magenta trainers that gave off a health club vibe, it was his financial objectives and the means by which the German incumbent aims to reach them that were designed to put investors at ease.
  Between 2020 and 2024, the company wants to gr
  
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• London museums and galleries open for the May spring bank holiday

  20-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now that museums and galleries can reopen to the public again, which ones will also be open on the coming Bank Holiday Monday (31st May 2021)?
  Most museums that are closed on Mondays will open on Bank Holiday Monday, but you will need to book tickets in advance for most of them, so here’s a list so you can grab those tickets while they’re still available.
  With fewer tourists in town, and museums limiting visitor numbers, this Bank Holiday is a great time to visit venues and enjoy the
  
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• Flexibile season tickets from a new Great British Railways

  20-05-2021 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Flexible season tickets for a post-pandemic commute are to be launched shortly as the first stage of a major revamp of how Britain’s railways are run.
  As had been widely expected, and was already starting to come into effect, the franchise system for the train operating companies (TOC) will be scrapped, and the division between the train companies and the railway infrastructure owner will be abolished.
  Great British Railways
  A new company, Great British Railways (GBR) will run and plan the
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Holy Trinity Brompton churchyard

  20-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hidden away from the hustle and bustle of busy Knightsbridge is this large open churchyard that’s an oasis of calm. The space owes its origins to when all around here was still fields, but local villages and growing city next door needed a new church to cater for the population.
  A very large plot of land was bought in the 1820s for both church and graveyard, and the church opened in 1829. They later sold the land facing Brompton Road, which now houses the imposing Brompton Oratory, and eff
  
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• Verizon scores slam dunk with NBA 5G deal

  20-05-2021 02:00
  Verizon today announced the deployment of 5G Ultra Wideband in 14 additional arenas and multi-year agreements as the exclusive 5G partner of the 15 NBA teams who play at these venues, bringing the total number of arenas and stadiums enabled with 5G to more than 60. With 5G Ultra Wideband, teams have the ability to bring fans in the stands closer to the action on the field, court or ice through immersive fan experiences. For example, fans can point their 5G phones at a player and get live stats
  
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• Optus activates numerous 5G mmWave sites

  20-05-2021 02:00
  Last month, the Australian regulator announced the results of the country’s latest spectrum auction, this time in the 26GHz spectrum, also known as mmWave. In total, the auction raised AUD647.6 million and saw all of the nation’s major operators take home a share of the spectrum…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• O2−Virgin Media merger gets go-ahead

  20-05-2021 02:00
  The CMA has today given their approval for the mammoth UK merger between Telefonica’s mobile operator O2 and Liberty Global’s fibre player Virgin Media. The £31 billion merger, a 50:50 joint venture, is now expected to be conclude by the start of June this year. The CMA took over regulatory duties related to the merger from the European Commission at the end of…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• O2−Virgin Media Media gets go-ahead

  20-05-2021 02:00
  The CMA has today given their approval for the mammoth UK merger between Telefonica’s mobile operator O2 and Liberty Global’s fibre player Virgin Media. The £31 billion merger, a 50:50 joint venture, is now expected to be conclude by the start of June this year. The CMA took over regulatory duties related to the merger from the European Commission at the end of…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Eir Sport to cease broadcasting after waning income

  20-05-2021 02:00
  Despite rising customer numbers, Ireland’s Eir has recorded a 3% drop in revenues in its most recent quarterly results. This loss is primarily due to a decrease in income from voice calls, as well as from the operator’s sports content. As a result, following a lengthy review, the company has now announced that Eir Sport will cease broadcasting later this year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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